Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Duchy of Aquitaine

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Duchy of Aquitaine

Duché d'aquitaine

Fief of Francia (660-700, 732-735, 736-741) Western Francia (877-982), and Kingdom of England(1135-1449)



841-1449

Angevin emblem (twelfth century)

Guide of France in 1154

Capital not indicated

Languages medieval Latin

Old Occitan

Religion christianity

Government feudal government

Duke of Aquitaine

- 860-866 ranulf I of Aquitaine

- 1058-1086 william VIII of Aquitaine

- 1126–1137 william X

- 1137-1204 eleanor of Aquitaine

- 1422-1449 henry IV of Aquitaine

Chronicled era middle Ages

- duke delegated by The Carolingian kings 660

- annexed by Kingdom of France 1453

Today part of France

The Duchy of Aquitaine (Occitan: Duche d'aquitània, French: Duché d'aquitaine, IPA: [dy.ʃe da.ki.tɛn]) was a chronicled fiefdom in western, focal and southern zones of present-day France to the south of the Loire River, in spite of the fact that its degree, and additionally its name, changed extraordinarily through the hundreds of years, on occasion including much of what is currently southwestern France (Gascony) and focal France.

It started in the seventh century as a duchy under Frankish suzerainty, eventually an entertainment of the Roman areas of Aquitania Prima and Seconda. As a duchy, it split up after the triumph of the free Aquitanian duchy of Waifer, happening to turn into a sub-kingdom inside the Carolingian Empire, in the end subsumed in West Francia after the 843 segment of Verdun. It returned as a duchy, and in the High Middle Ages, an extended Aquitaine vowed unwaveringness to the Angevin tradition, who likewise happened to rule in England. Their cases in France set off the Hundred Years' War, in which the kingdom of France rose successful in the 1450s, with numerous consolidated zones coming to be governed specifically by the French lords.

Substance  [hide]

1 History

1.1 Early history

1.2 Carolingian kingdom of Aquitaine

1.3 Angevin Empire

1.4 Hundred Years' War

2 Geography and subdivisions

3 See additionally

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